A must-have car: Animal House

I can't buy this right now, but someone really should: the Dalta Tau Chi deathmobile from Animal House. It's apparently here in Jacksonville. The turret and side cladding must be removable. Quite the piece of movie history. Not mine, etc.: http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/cto/1348316227.html Tom

Hmmm...I always thought that it was made from an early 60's Lincoln Continental....based on the car trashed in the movie.

*EDIT...while I can't dispute the validity of the car being sold as a "movie car",it doesn't appear to be the same as the one from the movie stills here:

http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/cars.htm

It is likely that multiple cars were used in the movie, but I seem to remember that Flounder's brother's Lincoln was a suicide-4-door.

Anyway, hit up Google and there are multiple hits for the movie car at $20k.

This ad looks like it starts with an "S" and ends with a "cam".

JFX001 wrote: Hmmm...I always thought that it was made from an early 60's Lincoln Continental....based on the car trashed in the movie. *EDIT...while I can't dispute the validity of the car being sold as a "movie car",it doesn't appear to be the same as the one from the movie stills here: http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/cars.htm

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Still cool, though. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/12/animal-house-ca.html This one is clearly a suicide 4 door.

Also, I think the movie was set in 1962. I doubt they would have featured a '69 so prominently.

That definitely is NOT the Animal House car. It was the inspiration for our first LeMons car meaning I checked out plenty of pictures to try to get reasonably close. I've also watched that movie enough times to know.

The movie car was not a 2 door of any type. You can see the body gaps for the 2 rear doors in the pictures if you look closely. Also, you can see the door handle depressions which indicate it was really was a suicide door Lincoln.

It had a round instead of square 'turret'.

It had the head of the Faber College founder (the statue's head, not the real thing!) on the hood.

The ad's a scam. 'Nuff said.

I could have swore I saw the Animal house car on the Universal Studios California tour.